Richelle Mead Quotes

Some of the best ideas come sort of out of nowhere and when you're not expecting it.

Just one great idea can completely revolutionize your life.

Success shuns the man who lacks ideas.

Creativity is a by-product of hard work. If I never have another really new idea, it won't matter.

There is something fierce and starved about first ideas.

I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea.

Nobody needs a movie to give them an idea.

Copying isn’t particularly creative work. Being inspired by someone else’s idea to produce something new and different IS creative work.

Money doesn't excite me - my ideas excite me.

The greatest thing on earth is a good idea!

If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances are the helpers will be there for you the doors will open some, the ice will crack.

I choose to be inspired by things that have been done well in the past. So, I don't worry about being compared, because I think that does paralyze you.

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

I have fantastic ideas.

What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

We Americans love original ideas. But truly, there are already plenty of good ones out there, ours for the taking. If I were too proud to copy the ideas of others, I likely wouldn't have even a fraction of my current success.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.

When material comes to me, I don't care where it's coming from. Japan, Singapore, China, Africa... it could be from everywhere. The material should excite me. It's not important where it's coming from.

You have to be unique in your own ways and the ways that you play to find a way to win. You can't always go with the trend that's going on. Sometimes you have to create the trend yourself and be confident in it.

I always imagine, and try to be on the lookout, for new things, for references that can inspire me creatively so I can showcase things that people haven't done before or that are new.

To create and do something no one else has done before - that feeling beats anything else I've felt.

Nothing, believe me, nothing is more satisfying to me personally than getting a great idea and then beatin' it to death.

Stay loyal to your creativity because it's a gift.